What are you watching?

[The Hammer]

A take on "What are you reading?" Here we can post neat or informative videos, documentaries, cool movies, or the like.

This was sent to me by a friend today and blew me away. Eat meat to save the planet.

 

[NoBonus]

A take on "What are you reading?" Here we can post neat or informative videos, documentaries, cool movies, or the like.

This was sent to me by a friend today and blew me away. Eat meat to save the planet.

[video]http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_ reverse_climate_change.html?utm_source=email&sourc e=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ios-share[/video]

Incredible video!!! I am going to have steak tonight (aka save the planet).
I seem to only ever watch autotune songs like this one:

This particular group, schmoyoho, is incredible

http://www.youtube.com/user/schmoyoho?feature=watch

 

[The Hammer]

Yo No Bo,

Thanks man. This area is a particular passion. Go for some grass fed. Check out this site for sources of grass fed meats, state by state. Call up a grass fed rancher and buy half a cow. Pony up. (pun intended).

http://eatwild.com/

 

[kingsnation]

There used to be a thread for what movies we recently saw, but I guess this fits more anything and everything we've watched.

I just saw the new Oz movie last week. Loved it. Great prequel, I won't go into details here.

Also for those with facebook, check out "Awesome Videos" page. They have some very fun, entertaining and even uplifting videos.

 

[Mad D]

Emotional and powerful end to this Walking Dead episode.

 

[Prophetess]

Catching up on Warehouse 13 before the new season. Artifacts with special powers! +/- sides awesome.

 

[Padrino]

snagged a previously viewed copy of Everything Must Go from a blockbuster liquidation sale a couple of weeks back. cost me $2.00. finally got around to watching it this weekend, and i have to say that it's an excellent little film, based on a raymond carver short story:

will ferrell has the same beautiful gift for deadpan that bill murray has perfected in the last decade. he was also wonderful in Stranger Than Fiction, and i hope he continues to pursue dramatic roles such as these. his comedic persona has grown rather tiresome to me, but he has surprising depths as a dramatic actor...

 

[Hoovtrain]

Watched the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel last night. Pretty good.
butteredbisquit would probably hate it though.

 

[kingsnation]

Watched The Descendants.

Great movie but sort of depressing. Great performances from Clooney and the 2 daughters.

If you want a heart-warming family bonding story but centered around tragedy - this is for you.

 

[Hoovtrain]

^ the descendants was a fantastic movie.

 

[kingsnation]

^ the descendants was a fantastic movie.

Yes! I agree. I'm also a huge fan of George Clooney and have since become a huge fan of Shailene Woodley. BTW, she's going to be playing the next MJ in the new SpiderMan I've heard. Super excited about that - she will do an amazing job.

Anyways, just got done watching 2 other movies.

First, "Red Lights." Fantastic acting from Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro and Cilian Murphy. They're acting made the movie, IMO. Other than that, I wasn't a huge fan. The movie is about 2 people who have dedicated their lives to dis-proving supernatural events. There are some twists but, they were IMO, predictable.

Secondly, on a more serious note, just watched "Human Trafficking," starring Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland. Again, AMAZING acting from the 2 stars and everyone in the cast. Very, very heavy movie of course given its subject matter. Very motivating and IMO, life-changing.

 

[Padrino]

my wife snagged Django Unchained last night and we watched it for the first time. all i can say is, WOW, what an absolutely thrilling film experience. it wasn't perfect, but it was signature tarantino, and one of the most unique movies to be crafted for "mainstream" viewing in quite some time. christoph waltz is to quentin tarantino what robert deniro was to martin scorsese for so many years. it's a symbiotic director/actor relationship that helps to bring out the best in both. after Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained (and totaling two best supporting actor victories), waltz really should be on his way to stateside character actor stardom. he's brilliant...

on a separate note, as above, i must also echo my appreciation for The Descendants. that was another excellent film with so much talent involved. it was nice to see clooney in a generally unlikable--but deeply human--role. he's so fantastic when paired with a director who doesn't require him to play himself, but instead allows him to stretch some serious acting muscle...

 

[The Hammer]

my wife snagged Django Unchained last night and we watched it for the first time. all i can say is, WOW, what an absolutely thrilling film experience. it wasn't perfect, but it was signature tarantino, and one of the most unique movies to be crafted for "mainstream" viewing in quite some time. christoph waltz is to quentin tarantino what robert deniro was to martin scorsese for so many years. it's a symbiotic director/actor relationship that helps to bring out the best in both. after Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained (and totaling two best supporting actor victories), waltz really should be on his way to stateside character actor stardom. he's brilliant...

on a separate note, as above, i must also echo my appreciation for The Descendants. that was another excellent film with so much talent involved. it was nice to see clooney in a generally unlikable--but deeply human--role. he's so fantastic when paired with a director who doesn't require him to play himself, but instead allows him to stretch some serious acting muscle...

Just watched Django too! GREAT film!! Tarantino at his best. Nobody does violence like Tarantino. The dude takes a german fairy tale and makes a blood spattering slavery revenge movie out of it... with fantastic characters. It really was top notch.

 

[Henkel]

I have mixed feelings about Django. Admire the craft and the cleverness, but the movie falls apart near the end.

Spoiler

Once Waltz and DiCaprio die the movie becomes sort of a mess and limps to a predictable finish. Plus with those characters no long around to support Django you get a sense of what a shallow caricature he is. Maybe it's just that the supporting characters and actors were so good that Django felt lacking in comparison.

Not a bad movie, but like most of Tarantino's stuff more clever fun then serious food for thought.

 

[The Hammer]

I have mixed feelings about Django. Admire the craft and the cleverness, but the movie falls apart near the end.

Spoiler

Once Waltz and DiCaprio die the movie becomes sort of a mess and limps to a predictable finish. Plus with those characters no long around to support Django you get a sense of what a shallow caricature he is. Maybe it's just that the supporting characters and actors were so good that Django felt lacking in comparison.

Not a bad movie, but like most of Tarantino's stuff more clever fun then serious food for thought.

Spoiler

Ok I see your point, but it is a fairy tale after all. Great performances by DiCap and Waltz. Thrilling. For me though, after they died, it was more about how strangely fascinating Tarantino's violence is. There's something about it that just makes me love it. Maybe it's the way it fist into the overall sweeping story line of revenge, which was so well set up by that point in the movie. It was kind of like we'd come this far, let's just finish it off with an all out blood bath, for the fun of it. Django was an understated character all along, more of a plot device than a character, right though? I mean, his lover was a thin character as well. This was one where the "main character" wasn't really the main feature, even though everything evolved around him. To me, all that didn't take away from the movie, as you kind of suspect that's what's going to happen. I just didn't need there to be some crazy twist. Sometimes I'm ok with the fairy tale ending, Tarantino style of course. I just love the way he puts a movie together.

 

[arwen undomiel]

On a side note, Mark Mastrov and his family were on Tanked Friday 4/26 -the ATM crew built a huge fitness themed fish tank for the addition to their home in Lafayette. I haven't been been able to find a clip to post, but the episode will air again next Friday evening 5/03 on Animal Planet. It was interesting seeing the man outside the Kings drama, even if it's only a brief little snippet.

 

[Hoovtrain]

my wife snagged Django Unchained last night and we watched it for the first time. all i can say is, WOW, what an absolutely thrilling film experience. it wasn't perfect, but it was signature tarantino, and one of the most unique movies to be crafted for "mainstream" viewing in quite some time. christoph waltz is to quentin tarantino what robert deniro was to martin scorsese for so many years. it's a symbiotic director/actor relationship that helps to bring out the best in both. after Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained (and totaling two best supporting actor victories), waltz really should be on his way to stateside character actor stardom. he's brilliant...

on a separate note, as above, i must also echo my appreciation for The Descendants. that was another excellent film with so much talent involved. it was nice to see clooney in a generally unlikable--but deeply human--role. he's so fantastic when paired with a director who doesn't require him to play himself, but instead allows him to stretch some serious acting muscle...

Re Django, thoroughly enjoyed it. Christoph Waltz is quickly becoming my favorite actor. The man just commands the screen.

 

[kingsnation]

Watched "Safe," with Jason Statham.

I'm a huge Statham fan and the overall message of the movie was awesome. The ending was a bit anti-climactic for me but overall a fun watch.

 

[Mad D]

Watching the Office, two hour series finale.

I love the shows characters. With 30 Rock gone and Community in limbo again, only Parks and Rec will remain as my favorite NBC comedy block comes to an end (and most likely to be replace with fast food quality laugh track sitcoms staring Dane Cook).

 

[Hoovtrain]

Watching the Office, two hour series finale.

I love the shows characters. With 30 Rock gone and Community in limbo again, only Parks and Rec will remain as my favorite NBC comedy block comes to an end (and most likely to be replace with fast food quality laugh track sitcoms staring Dane Cook).

I loved the finale, thought it was done very well. Got chills when Michael returned. I also really liked Andy's comment at the end in reference to always longing for the past while in the present: "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days...before you actually left them". I thought it was a very poignant comment that i can relate to.

 

[Glenn]

I rented "Lincoln." I was looking forward to this as a political junky, history junky, and wanting to watch Daniel Day Lewis. I also love movies just as a general rule. I was bored to death as was my wife. We didn't finish it. Did anyone have the same reaction? I was very surprised that I had trouble staying awake.

 

[PurpleHaze]

I watched "Lincoln" recently on long flight back from S.E. Asia, specifically on longest leg from Narita, Japan to Portland, Oregon. It had lot of slow, brooding moments, but I liked it overall. Most reviews I saw raved about it so in that respect I'd say somewhat overrated. Also, on that long flight I watched "Argo" about 1979-80 Iran hostage crisis and six Americans who were secretly spirited out of Tehran in daring, very high risk, undercover operation. A movie few rave about but was actually quite entertaining, especially if you know history of that time.

 

[VF21]

I recently discovered the series "Justified" and I'm totally hooked. They've been showing three episodes a couple of nights a week very late at night on FX, so I've been saving them on DVR and then watching mini-marathons. It's a lot easier now that I don't feel I have to be monitoring Twitter 24/7 for late-breaking Kings news.

 

[kingsnation]

Watching the Office, two hour series finale.

I love the shows characters. With 30 Rock gone and Community in limbo again, only Parks and Rec will remain as my favorite NBC comedy block comes to an end (and most likely to be replace with fast food quality laugh track sitcoms staring Dane Cook).

The finale made me sad. I hate seeing one of my favorite shows go, especially when it's been such a staple in my life. Michael Scott's return was awesome of course. Ryan and Kelly's final appearance was classic them. Overall, a great episode and awesome conclusion.

 

[The Hammer]

I rented "Lincoln." I was looking forward to this as a political junky, history junky, and wanting to watch Daniel Day Lewis. I also love movies just as a general rule. I was bored to death as was my wife. We didn't finish it. Did anyone have the same reaction? I was very surprised that I had trouble staying awake.

I thought it was kinda overrated as well. Kinda neat from a historical perspective, but yeah, overall, I thought it would be better based on the "rave" reviews.

Argo, on the other hand, was electrifying. Excellent movie.

 

[Mad D]

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In The Flesh

Here is the premise:

Set in the fictional village of Roarton, England after "The Rising" (this show's take on a zombie apocalypse), in which teenager Kieren Walker was re-animated along with thousands of people who died in the year 2009. After months of rehabilitation and medication, the zombies (now referred to as partially deceased syndrome (PDS) patients by the government, but commonly known as "rotters") are judged ready to return to their homes and families. They are given cosmetics and contact lenses to conceal their decayed appearance, and must maintain a strict programme of medication to avoid going "rabid" again. Many are haunted by returning memories of the atrocities they committed while rabid. In the extremist village of Roarton, PDS sufferers face prejudice from the villagers upon their return.

It's a three part mini series on BBC America. It's less about the action [barely any] and more about the drama of people trying to acclimate into society.